Peggy Whitson Quotes

You can solve problems, but the solutions don't always have to be elaborate or expensive.

Peggy Whitson

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• Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Business
  • Humanity
  • Movies

• I'm a singer and working on my second album. I write and produce. There is so much more that satisfies me. So there's not just this one ambition to become an American movie star. Because I will never become an American movie star.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Movie
  • Working
  • Ambition

• If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Love
  • Love You
  • Shall

• It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.

  

  Edmund White
  • Real
  • Better
  • Successful

• You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Faith
  • Know
  • Doubt

• It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Parents
  • Day
  • Weird

• Wally Amos is the classic example of a man who gets up again and again.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Up
  • Man
  • Classic

• I was so terrified before an audience that I would break out in these ugly red hives, and my lips would quiver at the sight of a word or a song.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Song
  • Red
  • Ugly

• Her mother, Laurie Simmons, is a contemporary artist, and my stepmother, Cindy Sherman, is a photographer, so they've known each other forever. Lena and I were often at the same dinner parties when we were kids.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Kids
  • Mother
  • Forever

• I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Stop
  • Reading
  • Present

• When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all of my exhibitions grew.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Conversation
  • Become

• My brother told me he was very proud of me, of the business I have built, and that gives me joy.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Business
  • Joy
  • Proud

• Perhaps the most prevailing expectation of men is our Superman expectation: the fear we are merely Clark Kents who won't be accepted unless we are a Superman.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Expectation

• I think it's a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software.

  

  Kent Beck

• The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.

  

  Rickie Lee Skaggs
  • Music
  • History

• I see myself working in the tradition of sociology and journalism that tries to bear witness to poverty.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Poverty

• While there's life, there's fear.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Life
  • Fear

• Autism currently affects one in 88 children in the U.S., and its prevalence continues to rise. That's why it's important to help organizations like Autism Speaks raise awareness and funds to support families and individuals impacted by it.

  

  Adrienne Bailon 3LW
  • Important
  • Children
  • Why

• You don't realize how much a dog's presence defines the contours of your home until, in its absence, the walls seem to relocate themselves.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • Home
  • Dog

• As far as competitive athletic wins and having great thrills, this ranks right there with them. For me, it was so much emotion and everything wrapped into it where the team was and all the things that have taken place. And for that to be Monday night and to know it was the Dallas Cowboys, you roll all that into one, it was very emotional.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Great
  • Night
  • Team

• There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Attention

• I wouldn't have launched 'Sharp Daily' without smartphones. Frankly, there's no reason for me to start another newspaper - it's a dying industry. But the smartphone is changing everything.

  

  Jimmy Lai
  • Daily
  • Dying

• Releasing the invisible ties to those who have left you, betrayed you, disappointed you or hurt you, you open up to higher realms of love, peace and joy.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • Up
  • Peace
  • Joy

• You can solve problems, but the solutions don't always have to be elaborate or expensive.

  

  Peggy Whitson